The Eternal Feminine is a conceptual ideal was particularly vivid in the 19th century, when women were often depicted as angelic, responsible for drawing men upward on a moral and spiritual path. Among those virtues variously regarded as essentially feminine are modesty, gracefulness, purity, delicacy, civility, compliancy, reticence, chastity, affability, and politeness.
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The concept of the "Eternal Feminine" (German, das Ewig-Weibliche) was particularly important to Goethe, who introduces it at the end of Faust, Part 2. For Goethe, "woman" symbolized pure contemplation, in contrast to masculine action.
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